Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.